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i am a freaking whale.
okay. i'm a female, about 5'2-5'3 and 95-100 lbs. i know this is bad, i'm severly overweight. so i was wondering -- how much weight do i need to lose to be healthy? what kind of diet do i need to go on? i'm willing to try ANYTHING. excercise..extreme dieting...ANYTHING! i just need HELP!
please & thank you.
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5"3 and 100 lbs? thats NOT overweight my dear! i mean if your my age (14-17) defintly, its not!
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For your height, you are not severly overweight. As I've mentioned before, a scale can be deceiving. Before you go to sleep you can weigh yourself and by the time you wake up you can be 2 lbs lighter...this is just water weight. Fat cells are very very stubborn to tap into and burn because the reason there is body fat in the first place is because it is all stored energy we never used, our bodies use carbs as a fast energy source before it uses fat, which is why I recommend working out first thing in the morning before eating, so your body has already tapped into its fat cells for energy since you did not eat all night. Fat serves 3 major roles in our bodies:
1.) It acts as insulation to regulate homeostasis
2.) It acts as a long term energy source
3.) It lines and cushions our major organs
You NEED fat in your diet, it is vital. However, you must know good fats and bad fats. Good fats include mono and poly-UNsaturated fats, check food labels for this. Saturated or Trans fat is very bad. A good way to remember them is by this visual using a ball of yarn or string:
Polyunsaturated fat is like a nice straight line of string
Monounsaturated fat is pretty straight with only a few tangles
Saturated fat is like everything in a whole mess, not straight at all
Essentially the differences between fats come with how many Hydrogen molecules are attached to the lipid structure.
Continue to eat, I cannot stress how important it is to keep eating
while dieting because your body is suseptible enough to infection when you diet, so you must continually "Feed the furnace". Back up this diet with a very good Multi-vitamin/mineral and since you are a female, make sure it has Iron in it. For good diets, check out what professional figure athletes are eating in the IFBB. Do not go on extreme diets are go without food for more than 3-4 hours or else there will be a tremendous Insulin spike in your system and when it wears off, you will be VERY hungry and the diet will crash. Exercise and keep a good attitude about yourself, the better your attitude, the less stress hormones and fluids your body will hold and of course.....do it because you love it and you're proud of your body. You are your body's guard, not it's prisoner. Anymore difficulties, feel free to ask.
And remember:
"No Pain, No Gain and remain the same."
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